Man sleeping on the steps
(1952)
- Medium
- enamel paint on composition board
- Measurements
- (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
- Place/s of Execution
- Sydney, New South Wales
- Accession Number
- 3060-4
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1954
© National Gallery of Victoria
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Self-taught artist Robert Dickerson was a factory worker and professional boxer before he began painting seriously in his thirties. Living in a caravan with his wife and three children, Dickerson used the bathroom in the factory where he worked as a studio on the weekends. His breakthrough came in 1954 when the NGV purchased Man sleeping on the steps. Dickerson’s paintings, imbued with firsthand experiences of poverty and vulnerability, offer a raw and evocative portrayal of the human condition.
- Subjects (general)
- Daily Life Human Figures Marines and Seascapes
- Subjects (specific)
- full-length figures men (male humans) seas sleeping stairs suits (main garments)
- Movements
- Antipodeans